Erik Darling describes partitioned views:
Hooray. Now you have to type less.
Partitioned views don’t need a scheme or a function, there’s no fancy syntax to swap data in or out, and there’s far less complexity in figuring out RIGHT vs LEFT boundaries, and leaving empty partitions, etc. and so forth. You’re welcome.
A lot gets made out of partition level statistics and maintenance being available to table partitioning. That stuff is pretty much automatic for partitioned views, because you have no choice. It’s separate tables all the way down.
Partitioned views, AKA SQL Server 2000 partitioning. I think my favorite use case for them today is to serve as a combination of hot data in a memory-optimized table and cold data on disk.